Must Have Accessories for the BlackBerry Tour Owner

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So you've had your new BlackBerry Tour for a while now (or maybe only a few days!) and hopefully have already stumbled upon our First Five Must-Have Apps for the BlackBerry Tour article. Now that your new BlackBerry is loaded up with useful and fun apps, the next way to enhance your BlackBerry ownership experience is with accessories.

BlackBerry accessories come in many shapes and sizes and serve many different functions to help out get more out of your smartphone. Items like skins, cases and holsters help protect your BlackBerry in style and provide a means of carrying around your BlackBerry that suits the way you want to use it. Bluetooth headsets, speakerphones and stereo headphones allow you to go hands-free while talking or listening to music, while a bluetooth accessory like the BlackBerry Music Gateway allows you to play your BlackBerry's music on your home's stereo system. Extended life batteries help your BlackBerry go longer while a desktop stand or charging pod makes it easy to charge your device and turn it into an awesome bedside clock. And that's just scratching the surface....

First Five BlackBerry Accessories for my BlackBerry Tour

Below you'll find many accessory ideas for your BlackBerry Tour. Like our Must-Have Apps article, we polled some of our contributors and moderators at CrackBerry.com to hear their favorites. If the accessory was available in our ShopCrackBerry.com store, we linked to it there so you can click through to learn more about it and if not, we linked to it elsewhere. Above each list we show an image of one accessory - the accessory pictured is the one listed in Bold. Keep in mind that their may be overlap between each list. If you notice that, then you realllly know that's a must-have accessory (ie. BlackBerry Tour Charging Pod!).

And while this article may be geared toward new BlackBerry Tour owners, the odds are at that the same accessory is available in a version for your device, be it a Storm, Bold, Curve 8900, older BlackBerry or even the new Curve 8520. You can always click on over to ShopCrackBerry.com, choose your BlackBerry model from the device selector tool, and click around to discover a whole world of options. Be sure to list your five favorite BlackBerry Accessories in the comments!

Get Accessorized!

And there you have it! Lots of accessory ideas for the new BlackBerry Tour owner to help you get the most out of your ownership experience. Again, this is just scratching the surface of what's available for your BlackBerry Tour or other BlackBerry smartphone, so be sure to jump over to ShopCrackBerry.com when you have a few moments and browse around. You may just find that little something something that makes owning your BlackBerry that much better. Keep in mind that with new devices like the Tour and Curve 8520 just hitting the market, that over the weeks and months ahead you'll see more and more new items hit. Be sure to check back often.

* Contest Reminder - Leave a comment to this post with YOUR Five Favorite BlackBerry Accessories. Contest ends this Sunday at Midnight PST. One winner will receive a $100 coupon from ShopCrackBerry.com. Be sure to list your five favorites! *

1. The charging dock-sleek and stylish
2. Otterbox Case...Must be otterbox- stylish and best for protection.
3. A belt holster- Better than the "in the pocket" grab
4. A 16gb harddrive- You can never have enough storage space.
5. A bluetooth headset- Its the law.

One of the things I absolutely love with my 8830WE has been the Bury Comfort mount for my vehicle. It holds my BB securely and charges it without the need to plug anything into the USB slot. It makes using the GPS features wonderful. Hopefully, there will be something similar for the Tour soon (universal mounts don't charge and don't hold on to the BB as well).

Some things I just can't live without...
1. 8 gig memory card
2. Blackberry silicone skin
3. Car charger... I use the iGo system so I can also charge my ipod and GPS
4. Phantomskinz screen cover
5. My aquapac... as a boater I never leave the dock without it!

-NOT the hard snap on case from Verizon
-Smartphone experts click case-only covers back and sides, but like the magenta color. I liked the Seidio snap case for my Curve, but none for Tour yet.
-Jawbone Prime ear candy in Frankly Scarlet--I lost the earpiece and just ordered another from Crackberry store.
-Lots of Jason Mraz ringtones and alerts from Bplay
Waiting for upgrades to themes so they look as good as they did on my Curve
-I haven't found a great screen protector that I can apply without any bubbles, even the one from Crackberry. One bubble in the top left is workable

my top 5 accessories is a bluetooth to talk to everybody , an otterbox case to protect your investment, also its gotta have the headphones to listen to your music ,a 8gb memorycard and finally a really tricked out theme from rr themes

1. Extended battery and cover.
2. Plantronic bluetooth headset
3. Car holder that plugs into cigarette lighter (don't know the brand)
4. Bluetooth GPS by Holux. I got it before I discovered how to unlock the GPS (HaHa Alltel/Verizon) The gps puck is more reliable.
5. Clear Protector FULL BODY SCREEN PROTECTOR.
and also my zBoost

Picture dial
Slacker
Word mole-comes with it-but I like itAngel Sword
VZ Navigator-atleast while its free for one mnth, then Ill go back to google
Epocrates-Im a paramedic, and its a great tool.
I found a link that allows one year of the free version for registering your BB...facebook

Well, I'm completely new to BB. I've had my tour for about 2 weeks. I haven't bought 5 things yet since I'm a newbie and I still need to learn more about what's out there... Here's what I've got so far and what I'm thinking of:

Dude's! A Charger dock of course, a must have!
Car charger is next in line
Some full body protective cover, that's slim & attractive
Don;t leave home without the extra battery
BlueTooth headset to top it all off!

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